Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:38:12 +1000 From: "Nigel Weeks" <nigel@e-easy.com.au> To: "'FreeBSD Advocacy'" <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Follow-up on the Mock-up Message-ID: <003e01c37c25$7c57d130$020aa8c0@aims.private> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.030915112259.nicole@unixgirl.com>
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Well, this has been fun. Firstly, I'm not a professional web designer. I just thought I'd have a crack at it. Thanks for all the comments, especially the bad. If I'm told how to improve, I can. Here's the Pro's and Con's, and a response for each: Cons: Mike H: ...this thing has borders that only display in IE... Resp: Tested in Konqueror 3.1, IE5.5, and IE6. If you can let me know how to get the borders to appear in your browser, let me know Mike H: ...it has a body with a relative width but a header with fixed with... Resp: 10 minute fix. Top bar is now blended to RGB#990000, so should scale to unlimited widths. If your browser won't do 'background-image:, and background-color:', let me know - I'd like to hear from you. Mike H: ...at least look like you have a clue about webdesign/layout/presentation... Resp: This is what I feed on. That's why I'm replying...;-) j.el-rayes: ...freebsd is not commerical, it is not an enterprise, it is not all about cash. we do not compare ourselves with red hat, suse and other .coms Resp: Surely more purchases of cdroms from people with money is going to help get features completed quicker?!?. You can pay more developers? yes, no? T Rhodes: ...a database makes it difficult for our mirrors... Resp: This is interesting. May require some thought on how robots, wget, etc, handle arguments to PHP scripts. M Pasternak: ...If you want to make a big, corporate-like website about FreeBSD - think about internals first, write some code, use some readily available web management systems (have you tried Zope yet?) - and then we can talk about this. Your idea is a very good one, but people don't browse ideas, they browse webpages. Hope you will have something to show to us soon... Resp: I've done a few changes, and swung part of a simple content management system over to it. It's not going yet, but it'll plug in quite nicely. Schema of Database: http://www.aims.net.au/nigel/bsdn/schema.sql (not complete yet) The mock-up has been updated to cater for all coments that I can address. Please, if you can, send me more comments. If this can get to an acceptable stage, who knows, anything might happen... http://www.aims.net.au.nigel/bsdn/ Thanks all! N.
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